How to create your daily diet?

It’s almost impossible to eat a healthy diet without using a computer. It would be a gigantic job to create a diet that contains the exact amount of calories, proteins, amino acids, vitamins, minerals,… by only using a sheet of paper and books. The computer program that I use is a free downloadable program called CRON-O-METER.
You can download it from here:

http://spaz.ca/cronometer/

This program calculates the amount of calories, fibers, water, alcohol, caffeine, starch, ash, sugars, vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fats. You are able to create a log which the values of blood glucose, weight, body temperature, systolic BP, diastolic BP and resting heart rate. You can create new foods or adjust existing ones.

Of course there are some other programs that you could use.

What I do is making a diet in the evening for the following day. That is much easier if you have to go to school or go to work.

Two meals a day versus more smaller meals a day.
Some people advise to eat only 2 meals a day. Let’s say one at 12.00h (12am) and one at 18.00h (6pm). By doing that the time between your meal at 18.00h and that at 12.00h is 18 hours. So they say that in that 18 hours your insulin levels are low and that is beneficial. People who support the more smaller meals a day say that by eating a smaller meal your insulin levels don’t change dramatically from very low to high. Of course these smaller meals must be made of foods on which your body only releases a small amount of insulin.